Chapter 6 The Man Who Freezes to Death
The body had been stored here for two days, and the relatives were crying and questioning why they had died in such a clear manner.
When a person dies, someone has to say, but because of the heavy rain for several days, the mountain road leading to the outside is completely blocked by mudslides and it is difficult to enter and exit.
Even if I could call the police, I'm afraid that no one would be able to arrive in two or three days, so it's no wonder they summoned me.
It's not that I haven't seen dead people, and I've seen those who died horribly.
For example, there is a person who fell from the mountain into a ravine and broke into a meatloaf, and there was a blind bear in the mountain who licked off half of his face, and there is now a person in the village who escaped death, and immediately went crazy when he saw something furry.
But the scene in front of me still made my back break out in a cold sweat.
The three male corpses were naked and purple, without any superficial scars.
The reason why I feel scared is that the expressions of the three people seem to be carved out of a mold, the corners of their mouths are slightly raised, and their eyes are slightly squinted with happiness, giving people the feeling that they are enjoying the most wonderful thing of time before they die.
When I first saw the white cloth covering the three corpses, I felt that something was not right, and sure enough, when I lifted it, the thing around their waists was straight, like a mountain mushroom coming out after the rain.
If it is a person with rich life experience, he will definitely say categorically that these three people were frozen to death.
Because only people who are frozen to death will feel the incomparable heat of their bodies before they die, and then strip naked, maintaining an expression of extreme enjoyment, and that place will also show a state of excitement.
But it's the height of summer, and there's no ice cellar or anything like that in the village, so it's absolutely impossible to freeze people to death.
No wonder the Li family father and son would regard this as a supernatural event, not a suicide or a murder incident.
According to them, the three bodies were found before dawn yesterday morning, and it had been raining for the past few days, but the mine had not stopped working, and the people who had rushed to work in the morning saw their workers on the side of the road.
The workers who saw this scene for the first time were so frightened that they didn't even want their wages, and ran away, only saying that they had seen a ghost.
The night before, they drank and bragged together, and the next morning they became this ghost, and whoever saw it was afraid that they would go crazy.
"This matter will be annoying to Xiaobaodao, there must be something unclean in this mine, and if you don't leave, the workers won't dare to work."
Li Ergou's father, Li Shan, was quite polite to me, and he seemed to remind me that I couldn't tarnish my master's reputation, and I had to investigate this matter thoroughly to the end.
If it weren't for the bullshit bride price that Yingzi's father proposed, I would have turned around and run away, even when the master and his old man were alive, I guess I haven't encountered such an evil thing.
In order to avoid unnecessary panic, Li Shan and his son blocked the news and gave the few people who found the bodies a large amount of hush money, but there are a lot of farts in the mountain, and paper can't contain the fire.
Especially since last night, the mine has been miserable, and the workers do not dare to work at all.
Although in recent days, the excavated coal cannot be transported, but once the road is dug up, there will definitely be a large number of buyers to come to buy, and there is only one mine in a radius of hundreds of miles, his Li family, of course, to take the opportunity to make a fortune.
It's no wonder that I was invited to pay such a large amount of gratitude, wanting to reassure the workers and increase production as soon as possible.
Most of the supernatural things happen at night, after all, there is the sun shining during the day, and the evil things between heaven and earth do not dare to act rashly, although the evil things also happen during the day, but yin and yang have their own operating rules, and that kind of example is still rare.
Since I'm here, I can't do nothing, and it's still necessary to make a show, in case the master blesses me and allows me to get through the difficulties in front of me safely, it's also earned.
After a few casual promises, I said that I would stay in the mine tonight and deal with it if something strange happened.
Although the workers were scared, Li Ergou and his son increased their wages by nearly three times, and driven by monetary interests, there were still some outlaws.
I mingled with these coal miners, of course, I would not go down the mine, that kind of place is very dangerous, it is said that as long as there is a landslide, the number of people who die is tens or hundreds, and they are suffocated to death underground, it is unimaginable.
I carry a small burden with me, without which I probably wouldn't be able to survive now.
The mine is in the mountain, so in order to make it easier for the workers to work, a few simple shacks were built at the top of the mountain, and it was enough to keep mosquitoes out in the summer.
While smoking the Chinese cigarette that Li Ergou's father and son respected, I turned to look around from time to time, and my lips trembled involuntarily.
In the past, I always felt that I was quite bold, and it was okay to walk past the cemetery at night, but today, all that comes to my mind are those three corpses, like ice sculptures, and I always feel a chill in my back.
Prior to this, I followed the method recorded in the broken books left by the master, got some incense ash, mixed cinnabar, and set up a soul-locking array near this shack.
I don't know if I'm fiddling with it or not, but it is said that the biggest effect of this formation is to be able to block evil spirits, if it is properly arranged, it can be peaceful within a radius of several miles, and the effect in the center of the formation is particularly obvious, it can be said that all evil cannot enter.
If you can survive tonight, it means that this method is effective, of course, everything is unknown, you can only take one step at a time.
I raised my eyes and looked at the sky, it was almost twelve o'clock in the night, and I was dozing off when I was sleepy, and suddenly I saw a figure in front of me, as fast as the mountain wind.
I was so frightened that I quickly opened my eyes, and following the voice, a black figure fluttered, as if the toes had not touched the ground.
I was a little confused at the time, and I didn't think much about it, if it was a human being, how could I walk lightly, and there was not even a footprint left on the ground.
By the time I followed, the figure had disappeared into the col ahead, which I remembered was supposed to be the entrance to the pit.
Even though it was summer, the wind in the mountains was still a little cool, and I shivered, and then I realized that something was not quite right.
In the moonlight, there is no shadow around my body, am I a ghost?
Undecided, another figure flashed in front of him, it was still the guy just now, this time he saw it more clearly, wearing coarse cloth clothes that are very common in the countryside, and his body was black as if he had just crawled out of the mine.
"Hey, this brother ......"
I instinctively thought that it was a miner who came out to release the water, but the guy in front didn't want to deal with me at all, as if he was in a hurry to get paid.
Strange in my heart, I chased a few steps forward, wanting to ask what was going on, and at this time I saw my own shadow.
Normally, an adult would not be afraid to see his own shadow, but now I am so scared that I can't even find the north.
For I saw the shadow stand up, and though it had no face, I could tell that it was my own, a shadow that I had vanished.
The shadow stood up from the ground and walked towards me, it was very strange under the faint moonlight, I instinctively turned around and wanted to escape, but I hit my head on a cold body, it was like a piece of ice in the cold winter moon.
"Damn it......"
As if I had heard such a vague sentence, my body seemed to have been fished out of the icy water, and it was hard and cold, and I felt pain all over.
I tried to choose a way to escape, but the body had quickly lifted its arms apart, and the hands like iron pincers grabbed my throat.
It's going to kill me!
It doesn't matter which way he is an immortal, he will first eat the master and destroy the world and cut off the feet of his children and grandchildren.
However, the pain was so painful that I almost lost my breath and felt like I was kicking on a rock.
The cold feeling followed the other party's big hands, directly from my neck and began to fill my whole body, as if even the air in my lungs was condensed, and I opened my mouth empty, but there was no way to breathe.
The guy with a soot face and a clear face filled with a strange smell that smelled terrible.
Is this what death smells like?
I'm in the prime of my youth, I'm just beginning to develop, I haven't really tasted what it's like to be a woman, and I don't want to die...... I can't die either!
Almost with my last breath, I pulled out a yellow talisman from my bosom and pressed it directly to the cold and dirty face in front of me.
However, the tragedy is that Lao Tzu's arms are not long enough......